Hey again! Here is yet another chapter, I'm exited for you all to read it, it's pretty good stuff. A bit of exitement...

disclaimer: i only own suze. there we go!

New Outlook

Suze slept through dinner that night, and woke up just as the boys were coming back to the tent, talking contentedly. Her vision was fuzzy from sleep, so she sat up to see who was there, she saw Magnet and Armpit,

"Hey Catch. We missed you at dinner."

"Yeah, were you sleeping here this whole time?" Armpit asked. Suze nodded drowsily.

"You're crazy for skipping dinner; we had really good food tonight!" Magnet joked, Suze gave a small smile. She looked at the tent door just as Squid and Zigzag entered, her eyes met Zigzag's for a moment. She could tell he was angry at her, Serves you right asshole, I can't believe I thought you were cute. He looked away and sat on his cot, talking to Squid and Magnet, ignoring her. Caveman and Zero came into the tent last, and the boys joked and talked among themselves until Mr. Pendanski told them to go to sleep.

-

"Michelle Summers, do you swear to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you God?"

"I do." Michelle gave Suze a small, evil smirk as she took her seat in the witness stand. She had dressed for the trial differently than her usual ensembles of short skirts and belly tops; this time she wore a long-sleeved white blouse, a knee length blue skirt, with her perfect blond hair tied in a low ponytail, here sat the girlfriend, and slave, of Chad Asker.

"Miss Summers,"

"Yes?" She answered in a sweet voice, but to Suze it burned her ears as if it was poison, Michelle Summers is one of the few people who has heavy influence of Suze's fate in this case, it didn't help that Suze and Michelle despised one another. Suze subconsciously drowned out the lawyers questions, closely listening to every word Michelle was saying.

"Yes, I did see her hit him."

"Would you describe the event in your own words Miss Summers?"

"Well, they were both by the softball fields, and they were talking. They never talk to each other, and they never really got along, so I was curious as to what they could be talking about, then…" Michelle began to sniffle, No, you can't be crying. Don't you dare…but Michelle continued, "Then I saw her," she made a gesture toward Suze, "grab her softball bat and swing at his head. I saw him fall, then she looked around to check if anyone saw, then ran away."

Suze was paralyzed partially in shock, fear, and rage. Her eyes nearly welled up with tears; this was far too overwhelming to comprehend, to big to swallow.

"You saw Miss Jacobs hit him?"

"Yes."

"The open area around the softball fields is considerably large, you might have either seen Miss Jacobs from a far distance, or Miss Jacobs saw you watching before she left, am I correct?" Mr. Asker's lawyer stood up in fury,

"Objection!" he interrupted before Michelle could answer, "The question is irrelevant your honor!" A short pause followed as the Judge debated to himself,

"The question is relevant, please answer Miss Summers." Michelle sat up a little taller, so the jury could see her bloodshot eyes from all of her "crying."

"I did see her from a far distance; I knew it was her because I recognized her softball jersey. I didn't help Chad right away because I was worried that she would come back and kill me too." She broke down into fake sobs again, only Suze knew she was not telling the truth, only Suze would know how she was set up, but everyone knew her fate would be scarred, no matter how hard she tried to save herself.

-

Suze was out in the hot sun, the same hot, dry sun as the past couple of weeks. She spit into her hole then wiped the sweat from her forehead as she walked back to camp. It took her a moment to realize that Zigzag was walking only a few feet in front of her. Should I talk to him? No, he's a stupid bastard. She, however, continued to stare at the back of his head, then to his bare back, she noticed how his strong back muscles moved with his strides.

He tossed his shovel into the pile; he glanced at her, and then walked toward the Wreck Room. Some part of Suze seemed to cramp up as Zigzag walked away, completely ignoring her, he hated her; and for some reason that didn't settle well with Suze. Whatever, I'm taking a shower. Then went to grab her wash things.

Suze still wasn't used to the cold water, but she put her face under the shower head anyway. The sun has been pretty hard on her complexion, and the cool water seemed to help.

She water shut off after four minutes, but she was finished anyway. She grabbed her towel and put it around her waist, and opened the shower door. She stepped down to realize that a group of three boys surrounding the door, she had never actually met any other guys other than D-Tent, but she didn't like the looks of any of them.

"Evening," The tall, dark, strong looking guy who spoke seemed to be the leader of the other huskier guys in the group, he approached her slowly. Susan…be on your guard.

"Hello." Suze said flatly, she didn't know why she answered him; she didn't have to be polite to anyone, especially not this guy.

"We figured that we should act like gentlemen, and introduce ourselves. I'm Rock." Rock continued to slowly approach her, Suze didn't respond. "We were hoping that you wouldn't mind if we escorted you to your tent." He had a grin on his face that Suze did not like, it actually had the opposite effect on her than it should have, Run! Go NOW! But Suze had nowhere to go; the boys were advancing on her, circling her as Rock came closer to her. Shit.

"I can get to my tent by myself thanks." She said quietly. But Rock only laughed,

"I didn't ask if you wanted us to help you…" He laughed harder, within arm's length of Suze, she tried to make a run for it but the boys surrounding her grabbed her tightly and wouldn't let her go. She kicked and was about to yell when another boy shoved a handkerchief in her mouth, stifling her cries. "I guess we're going to have to make you cooperate with us…" Rock smirked. Suze tried to get her arms free, but one of the boys had her around the waist, and the other was holding her arms, she could not wretch them free, she began to panic. Rock turned the other way and began to lead the other boys behind the showers. Suze tried so hard to wriggle out of their grasp, but nothing seemed to work, she tried to scream, but the handkerchief was doing its job.

Rock turned around to face her and ripped her towel from around her; leaving Suze in her wet t-shirt and swimsuit bottoms. Suze tried harder to escape but there was no hope, no more hope for Suze. She tightened her legs together but a fourth boy pried them apart, then Rock came between them. He began to touch her, run his grimy hands up her thighs, butt, back, then to her stomach, where he advanced up her shirt. She was still writhing and kicking as he found her breasts and began to fondle them with a triumphant grin on his face. Suze was in tears, still screaming, the boys holding her were laughing and watching with curiosity as Rock kept a hand on her breasts as he tried to pull her swimsuit bottoms off, Suze screamed and kicked more ferociously, but her attempts failed her once more, her heart was beating faster and faster as some more of her crotch area was being exposed by Rock, she could see him getting hard in his pants. SHIT! NO GOD NO! SAVE ME! HELP ME PLEASE! SOMEONE!

Suddenly, as if an answer to her prayer, Rock was suddenly knocked off of his feet and wrestling on the ground, the three other boys dropped Suze to help Rock with whatever knocked him down. Suze grabbed her towel and wrapped it around her for protection. She stood there, watching them, partially curious as to who saved her. Suddenly, someone came from the middle of the fist-fight pile and grabbed her wrist, causing her to whip around and run toward D-Tent.

"You wait Zigzag!" Rock yelled furiously from behind them, "You'll pay, so will your whore!" Wait…Zigzag? Suze stopped running, causing Zigzag to stop running too; they looked at each other for a few moments. They were both out of breath, but Suze was so absorbed in his bright blue eyes that she didn't know what to say. He looked at her, he didn't look angry at least, but his lower lip was bleeding.

"How…" Suze tried too start, but Zigzag just kept staring at her, breathing unevenly. "Better yet…why…"

"I heard Rock laughing, then I heard you…" he stopped to catch his breath. Zigzag brought his hand up to her face and wiped away stains from her tears under her eyes with his thumb. Suze didn't mind his touch, in fact, a small spark took place in the pit of her stomach, it surprised her, and she liked it. "I guess I felt like I had to save you,"

"Save me?" Suze began, slightly angry that someone felt that she needed saving, "I can handle myself thanks. I would have been okay." Suze knew right then that she was lying, Suze, you are bull-shitting yourself, you would have been raped, and no one would have cared. She saw Zigzag's eyes narrow in anger as he drew his hand away from her,

"Fine, then next time I won't bother." He snapped,

"Fine."

"Then I guess you'll finally know what it's like to be raped, to be a little victim…" He taunted. STUPID ASSHOLE! I HATE HIM!

"That's not fair…"

"You think you are the only person to feel pain? Look around you Catcher!" He opened his arms, referring to the entire camp, Suze's blood began to boil, but he kept ranting, "Pain surrounds you here, you are not the only victim, and there are plenty of guys here whose parents abandoned them! I'm one of them! I haven't contacted my parents in three years! It felt terrible at first, but I GOT OVER IT. I didn't shun myself from everything else, YOU ARE NOT ALONE HERE SUZE, GET OVER YOURSELF. Or else you'll have even bigger problems." He glared at her for a moment, and then left for the dining room, leaving Suze alone. She had no response to his outburst, she was shocked, breathless.

He pulled the rug right out from underneath me; he is completely right about everything…